Not even the pandemic stops them, although they do not perform concerts for prevention, they are already preparing a new album
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Consecrated figures in Latin music recognize the trajectory of Los Tigres del Norte in the regional Mexican and have given them a new title: “The Rolling Stones of Latin America.”
Juanes surprised them by calling them that in a recent sustained live collaboration on the occasion of the 10 years of production Tr3s Presents MTV Unplugged: Los Tigres del Norte and Friends, in which the Colombian artist sang with them “La Jaula de Oro”.
“ When he said it, I had a very nice feeling, of sincerity. I felt a very great responsibility, which we have always had, but when a person like him says something like this publicly, it has a very great importance “, Expressed Jorge Hernández, Accordionist and singer of the band.
From Unplugged, recorded at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles, they decided to upload all the videos on February 8 to your Vevo channel. Only “Blows in the Heart”, performed together with Paulina Rubio , had reached YouTube .
Now the group has more than five million monthly listeners on Spotify, but to get there, they suffered.
“ We had to live a very difficult time because our music did not like and the music of the north did not have strength in the Mexican Republic explained.
Work in the United States in 1968 changed its history, but the leader of the group recognized that his intention was not to be there, but to go to the record companies and the big studios of CDMX.
“ I had family in Mexicali, there I met a person and he invited us to go to the United States. They brought us to work in a prison for Latino prisoners who had asked for music, in California ”, he shared.
On that occasion, the people who took them to the event left them without passports and they had to sing in restaurants.
But more than five decades after that experience, The Tigers , today, are considered as one of the most influential groups of its kind.
Not even the pandemic stops them, because although they do not perform concerts for prevention, they are already preparing a new album.
“ We will start recording next Monday and we will finish until mid-March, God first. We have very beautiful songs, hopefully the public likes what we are making because we want to surprise “, added the Tigre Mayor .
